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Wtf, Netflix is ending basic membership. Now it's going to have adverts. It's cheaper and full HD and you can stream on 2 screens. But it has ads unless you upgrade to a more expensive option.
Playing Endless Ocean Luminous, 15 min take, awesome graphics, nice shades, depth of field and resolution.
No operatic music, wii like menus, no motion controls.
Saw some mythical creatures which were cool. You're interrupted and guided by an AI voice, would have preferred a decent voice actor.
Haven't played enough to get a sense of its likeness to the first or second games yet.
Everything is persistent, cargo you tip over, things you've abandoned, the last position you left your trucks in. There is a delete trailer and delete cargo option but you can't sell it then.
The game had 2 free DLC trucks, I thought I had to buy them with in game currency, but I was wrong. Quite happy though as having it a bit tough is the Mudrunner way.
Not sure what to make of Endless Ocean 3.
I did the story tutorial missions which are 5 min segments in quickfire succession. Then it says I have to scan 500 fish to go to the next chapter. My only options are online dive, solo dive or repeat the tutorial segments.
So I dove into solo dives. There don't seem to be dive sites like the first two games. It feels like a big empty space where there may be some procedural generation at play. If the whole game is like this it's like one big tech demo.
Need to get back to the story mode to see if there's more to it.
Visuals are really good. The music is very similar to the wii games (midi keyboard) but has no voiced operatic music.
It feels unlikely the rpg like second game or the experience led piece of art the first game was. It's still nice and relaxing.
Ugh the way the media has reported on the Switch 2 specs news from the Moores law is dead podcast is terrible.
It was actually pretty good news, the system is looking to have 4 (modern) teraflops so will be PS4 Pro ++ level docked. He also said the docked clocked were going to be higher than you expect. Portable they're probably going to rely on DLSS and why wouldn't they? A 1080p screen, DLSS can upscale from 720p to 1440p no problem. It makes sense to save on battery life. They also said even with lower portable clocks, it's going to be multiple times faster than the clocks switch 1 ran at.
It's pretty good news and I'm eagerly awaiting Backwards Compatibility if it can make all my switch 1 games run at 1080p handheld with no dynamic resolution.
And boost docked resolution of switch games. You can really tell in Mudrunner and Snowrunner when it's high and when it's low.
Yeah, I’m pretty satisfied with the rumoured specs for the Switch 2 as well. Just give me that full backwards compatibility and I’ll be good to go.
I finished my BG3 review, the best RPG I ever played.
I bought FO4 DLC and am back in the wasteland because the show has me in the mood. That show is amazing, better than TLOU.
I have a new GOTY 2021, it was Metroid Dread but I played Inscryption and holy shit what a game! I'll have a write up soon.
I’m looking forward to the squirrel bits.
So the solo dive option in Endless Ocean 3, and the online dive are procedurally generated, I did experience different things in the two long sessions.
But I came across the exact same sunken ship, 4 times in one dive.
There are also no specific stages. It's all large and flat with a couple of caves.
If the story mode uses the same open, procedurally generated map this will go down as a bare bones online game that probably should cost 10 bucks.
That's diving for you. It can be mighty disorientating. You probably just circled around three times without noticing.
I'm just trying to break the 500 animals scanned so I can move on with the story.
In the old games they had lots of individually created dive sites. Here it feels like they made on flat square map and just hand the creatures randomly swim about.
You scan them, that's it. There's other things wrong with the game, the UI is intrusive, whenever the AI bot speaks to you they black out half the screen to put huge subtitles onscreen.
You can shut off the UI with the minus button but it return as soon as you press a button, which is every fee seconds.
They music fades in and out. When it's on it feels somewhat like old times but it plays for 2 mins then back to long stretches of ambient noise, before it comes back.
The graphics are really excellent, I don't know how they did it, but shader work is better than anything I've seen on Switch. Sometimes when the camera catches it at the wrong angle you can see the seams but it's mostly excellent. Some of the fish models literally couldn't be better, so sharp and detailed.
Others don't have the same level of texture work.
It comes with a switch online trial but I have no interest in gliding around an empty.map randomly encountering fish.
It also veils creatures, the veiled sea. The game mechanic explained that its some bacteria and the light rays from your scanner unmask them. In practical terms it means all the creatures look like metroid Prime/Batman Detective mode shapes you have to scan before they look normal.
I don't mind this mechanic but once you scan one species you expect all other fish of that species to be unmasked.
Because it doesn't do this you end up swimming without the natural colours and beauty of a coral reef.
All the creatures are the same shade of blue, like a silhouette.
I think they should have just used these models and graphics to Remake the first two games like the Another Code remakes.
No there's a map, it was in different quadrants.
They could literally put all the stages from the first two games and link it all up in one open world with no loading in and out. It would be awesome. But no.
I went on a spending spree, traded in Alan Wake and Borderlands 1 and 2.
I got the Witcher 2, enhanced edition with Quest guide, map, soundtrack CD.
Far Cry 3 and 4, Assassin's Creed 1!
And Dead Rising 2.
I would have bought Fallout new Vegas but I wanted Witcher 2.
So I scanned 500 fishes in Endless Ocean Luminous.
Did the next story chapter, it lasted 5 mins. They put you in a flat square area and you're asked to scan 10 starfish.
After that I go to select the next story chapter, it's locked and wants me to scan 1000 creatures to unlock it.
This game is HOT garbage. I'd go as far as to say I feel like I've been ripped off. There is so little content here I'm amazed that Arika and Nintendo had the gall to present and release this as a full priced game.
If this game doesn't get huge, free single player DLC you may as well throw it in the trash.
Yeah, I think GameSpot gave Endless Ocean 3 a 3/10. Quite surprised that the game turned out so poorly.
Just read IGNs review, I was going to keep playing for the story but it's locked behind different requirements that are impossible to meet. You have to find certain things, but you aren't told where to find them and the whole map is randomised.
Apparently in an online session with 30 players everyone can find these things without too much hassle. As a sole player you can do two hour dive sessions and not find what you're looking for.
I've just put it up for sale on ebay.
I hear they didn't even allow pre-release review code, this game is a scam.